Fun Palaces

One of the other fun bits of ephemera of the Biennale was Social Cinema, projected onto Lubetkin's still lovely Finsbury Health Centre- especially a somewhat pissed Cedric Price (a pic of whose Fun Palace emblazoned one of the two tapes, thanks for which I got none, which I made for the dissensus tape swap) advocating doing away with the process of listing buildings. So I can't resist quoting from the Telegraph obituary linked below by Bat:-

Price rejected the value of "heritage" for its own sake, and loved baiting the "young fogies" who campaign for every Victorian lean-to. He enjoyed a brief moment of notoriety in 1974 when, asked what he would do about York Minster, he replied "flatten it" - reflecting his belief that if the function of architecture disappears (if people stop going to church, in this instance), then the building must adapt or be disposed of "like a worn-out pair of Hush Puppies".